Are roast beef sandwiches sold in fast food restaurants real?

At restaurants such as Arby's or Rax, where roast beef sandwiches are the specialty, the meat almost seems too perfect to be real. Any real roast beef I've ever seen doesn't hold together that well. It almost seems like a preformed, slivered meat puree. Does anyone know?

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Best Answer: OK, here is what it really is! Why do people with absolutly no CLUE write answers on here.

The processor takes various pieces of meat, grind it and add liquid to it until it is amount liquified. It is called a slurry at that point. Then it is injected into plastic bags. It then goes into a steaming and boiling process to cook it back into a solid. Then it is shipped through distribution to the stores who then recook it.

Want proof? look at a piece of steak. You will be able to see the actual grain of the muscle. Now look at the roast beef from Arby's or Rax. You will not see any grain from muscle. A lot of your cheap lunch meat is made this way. Turkey, Ham,. Chicken can can all be processed this way. It is a way to use leftover pieces, lesser quality meat, and so on.

Even though this question gets asked frequently on here regarding Rax and Arby's, many other food service restaurants use this kind of product. Subway for one.

There is nothing wrong with it. It is the process for the restaurant to keep prices down while making as much profit as possible.

I have a friend who sells food products to restaurants. He has been to the plant where they make it and has personally seen the process.

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Are roast beef sandwiches sold in fast food restaurants real?
At restaurants such as Arby's or Rax, where roast beef sandwiches are the specialty, the meat almost seems too perfect to be real. Any real roast beef I've ever seen doesn't hold together that well. It almost seems like a preformed, slivered meat puree. Does anyone know?

It may be possible that they are using soy as a filler in some of their products but they cannot market a roast beef sandwich as roast beef unless it is indeed roast beef. If it is not and can be proven they would be liable for millions in lawsuits let alone the destruction of the business.

They might have soy in their meat, among other things. It's a closely guarded recipe, I'm sure. Ha ha. Fast food restaurants are all the same. Words like "beef", "meat", "fruit", and "fresh" are used very loosely. I wouldn't worry about soy, or seaweed (another very common meat ingredient in the industry). It's the chemicals that I don't like. Arby's or JBox don't make me ill, but BK or McD do.